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EXCEL - Word question.?

I'm doing a mail merge with Microsoft Word/Excel. The data i'm pulling is in an excel document. The formulated value in a certain cell reads "6.62%". When I merge it into word, I need it to read "6.62%". Instead, it reads the true value of the cell which is 6.6199999999999995E-2.

I can not manually type 6.62% into the cell as it is a formulated cell. Even if I change the cell to 6.62% instead of it being a formula, and it STILL is having the same issue. That leads me to believe that something has to be done in Word, but i'm not sure.

It is a formulated cell that is already formatted as a percentage with 2 decimal places. Is there anything that can be done in Word perhaps?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Before you complete the Merge you need to format the merge fields.

    Right click the field -> click toggle field codes. You will see something that looks like this:

    { Percentage “{ MERGEFIELD blah }” }

    You need to add "\# ##.00" and make it look like this:

    {Percentage“{MERGEFIELD blah }" \# ##.00 }

    Put the percentage sign in the document text to display that. If you need more help go to Word and in the help menu type "Format Merge" and you will get some options which will provide more examples.

  • 1 decade ago

    I've run into bugs like this all the time. One major fix is to Save and Close the Word document (it will ask you to save the Excel spreadsheet on the way. Save it, too). Then, open the Word document again.

    It refreshes the changes you've made in Excel.

    If that doesn't work, you could make a forumula beside the percent column and turn it into a text. For instance, =left(C2,4)&"%"

  • boler
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    You might try rounding the value in your Excel sheet, unless that would interefere with your calculations. That way Excel stores it as a 2 decimal number. When you format the cell, Excel actually stores the full number, and only displays it as a 2 decimal number.

    =ROUND(A!,2)

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